Special Issue: Family Planning

Special Issue: Family Planning

CONTENTS Family planning as a critical component of sustainable global development Babatunde Osotimehin 1 Meeting demand for family planning within a generation: prospects and implications at country level Trends in contraceptive use and distribution of births with demographic risk factors in Ethiopia: a sub-national analysis Potential confounding in the association between short birth interval...

Special Issue

Family psychology and family law: introduction to the special issue.

As part of a multilevel systemic approach, the authors appearing in this journal suggest implications for social policy and legislation extrapolated from the individual, family, legal, and larger sociocultural systems discussed. The field of family psychology can play a significant leadership role in advocating policies and legislation relevant to the emerging family types and legal dilemmas ba...

Preface to special issue on planning and scheduling

Planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction are important areas in artificial intelligence (AI) with broad practical applicability. Many real-world problems can be formulated as AI planning and scheduling (P&S) problems, where resources must be allocated to optimize overall performance objectives. Frequently, solving these problems requires an adequate mixture of planning, scheduling and r...

Intergenerational Transmission within the Family a Special Issue

In this special issue, we wanted to gather a diverse range of psychological points of view concerning the question of intergenerational transmission within the family. It was on this topic that we asked for contributions from systemic family therapists and developmentalists. It is such an important topic from both a research and a clinical perspective that our colleagues were full of enthusiasm...